LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 11.20 on the night of the 26th of January, 1959, a message was received from the trawler agents at Cahirciveen that a Spanish trawler was sinking twenty-five miles south-west of Skelligs Rock. Another vessel was...

Five hundred people attending Gorleston lifeboat hall gave a big 'send off to a mammoth fund-raising event by- Great Yarmouth and District Round Table No. 41.

The Tabler.i aim to raise £10,000 for the Institution... - View image in PDF

Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...

As oil prices continue to rise, it is timely that the RNLI has struck a deal with Switch with Which? , the UK’s only not-for-profit energy price comparison website. Switch with Which? compares thousands of tariff and payment options on both...

Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 6.15 on the evening of the 6th of February, 1961, the mechanic told the honorary secre- tary that a seventeen-feet open fishing boat was drifting out to sea. There was a westerly wind of gale force when the...

ST. DAVID'S.—On the 11th November, at 5 P.M., it was reported that there was vessel stranded on Ramsay Island. The crew of the Life-boat Augusta immediately proceeded to the station, rockets and blue lights were fired, but no answer was...

On the morning of the 1st May the local motor fishing cobles put out to haul crab pots. A moderate N. wind was blowing, with a considerable ground swell, and at 10.30 A.M. with the tide ebbing the sea broke heavily across the bay, making the...